Last month I got the chance to play my first game of Pizza Box Football with Jay.  I bought this on my last big Thoughthammer purchase.  I have a few beefs with the game, but my biggest complaint is how much time it takes considering you're just rolling a bunch of dice and not making a lot of interesting decisions.  So I've come up with an alternate set of rules to use with the game. 

I've included two handy charts that I came up with while in a meeting at work today.  I'll present them here, along with my alternate rules.  If anyone wants a nice, professional copy of my alternate rules, I might be persuaded to send them to you for $10 + shipping.

Pizza Box Football Alternate Rules

Step 1 - Choose a starting player
To make things easy, use rock / scissors / paper, or roll a die to see who the starting player is.

Step 2 - Play Rock / Scissors / Paper
The next step in Pizza Box Football is for the offensive player to select a play type, and for the defense to select his defense type.  Rather than wasting all sorts of time with that, just play a quick game of Roshambo.  This step replaces the "Run / Short Pass / Long Pass" step of the game.

Cross-reference the throw using Table A and appy the result as a modifier for the starting player.

Table A - Rock / Scissors Paper Result Table

Step 3 - Starting Player Die Roll
In the final step, the starting player rolls a single d6, applies the modifier from Step 2, and looks up the result on Table B to determine the results of the game.

Table B - Final Result Table

That's it!  These rules really streamline the game, and make the time investment really match up with the skill level needed to play Pizza Box Football.  After all, if you're going to have a meaningless dice-fest, why not make the game length match the fun factor?

I hope these alternate rules bring you minutes of fun the next time you get together with a buddy to play your next game of Pizza Box Football!